My firsthand experience with the new Nokia X2 android phone

By now I believe you all know that the Nokia X2 is the 2^nd series of Nokia android smartphones after the first X series that came in 3 variants of X, X⁺ and XL.

The first X series of Nokia android phones no doubt were like android case study for Nokia, but having the X2 now, you get a much improved features and functionalities.

Here, I just want to give you my firsthand unbiased experience with the Nokia X2 by pointing out some features that might interest you and for those that are planning to get one of the devices to really know what they are going for.

Let’s take you straight now into the topic of the day which is my firsthand experience with the new Nokia X2 android device.

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With the X2 at hand, I want to say that Nokia did a better work here than the former series. Firstly, I want to start with the size of the device, as you might have known the Nokia X2 features a 4.3 inches display, making it intermediary between the Nokia X and that of the XL and giving it a perfect portability and hold ability unlike the XL that many say it is too big and not very hold able with one hand.

Then coming to the back of the X2 which also serve as the battery cover and the color determinant of the device, it has a more glossy cover making it look more attractive than the former.

Now for the display quality, obviously nothing changed as with the former, still the same picture resolution of 480 X 800 pixels. The camera too is the same with that of the XL featuring 5MP with LED flash, so nothing much to say here.

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Coming down to the buttons, the X2 has additional home button as can easily be seen and this is in addition to the back button that was the only button that was featured in the formers series.

Then still on the buttons, one might easily think that the additional home button might serve dual or multiple purposes, i.e. in addition to taking you to your home screen, long key pressing to show you other open apps for easy multi-tasking.

But that was not the case for the X2 device as expected, the included home button serve just a single purpose of taking you to your home screen at any point in time. Rather that anticipated feature of long key pressing to show other open apps was assigned to the back button.

Then deeper inside the phone, you know it came with 1GB RAM which is quite impressive as compared to the former that featured 512MB and 768MB RAM. With the 1GB RAM for the X2, you will not notice any lag time when opening and working on heavy apps and also when playing heavy games unlike the former.

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There is WiFi and WiFi hotspot that work just very fine on it either through tethering in or tethering out and also the 3G is equally fast as with other devices with HSDPA.

Installing and making use of app like Whatsapp is still a little problem on the Nokia X2, except you install it through the backdoor method before you can use it easily.

The X2 came with only one browser, i.e. the Opera mini browser which is its default browser and just as recently announced by Microsoft that all its new and future phones will be getting the Opera mini as its default browser as result of recent partnership with Opera.

As you know, you can always download other browsers of your choice in the Microsoft store or other stores.

Going inside the uncovered back of the phone you will find the spaces for the dual micro SIM and that of the microSD card. Here, one of the SIMs can be inserted without needing to take out the battery unlike the former series.

Android apps works fine on the X2 and so are Microsoft apps too.

So those are my discovery and experience with the new Nokia X2 android device and serving judgment from my end, I will say it is a pretty good device with perfect size for smartphone.